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Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (1855) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Yesterday, when I was reading the following description of watercolour by Laura Cumming in “New Review” (pp. 32-33), ‘love’ came to my mind, and I am still thinking about it: Watercolour has…
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– Greg Santos’s debut poetry collection, The Emperor’s Sofa is now available. Do also check out the following two book trailers: http://vimeo.com/16674362 http://vimeo.com/19709603 Congratulations, Greg! Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. –
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– If you liked a piece of fiction published in Cha in 2010, please consider nominating it for storySouth‘s 2011 Million Writers Award. Nominations can be made HERE. In 2010, we published three issues and the following four short stories are…
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Cover photo from the Powerhouse Museum, Tyrell Collection. No known copyright restrictions. – Luisa A. Igloria’s poem “Open Relationship” is now published in the latest issue of Quay: A Journal of the Arts. Read it here. – Luisa A. Igloria’s…
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I know parallel semantic and syntactic structure is a key feature in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. But reading the poem below, I was just thinking that ‘need not’1 might make more sense than ‘cannot’ in the first stanza. What do you think? The…
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– W. F. Lantry’s short story “Lacry-mosa” is now published in the Winter 2011 issue of BLIP Magazine. Read it here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –
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– Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Short-Tempered” is now featured at Every Day Poets. Read it here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. – –
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– Lyn Lifshin’s poems “Rose”, “If Those Blossoms Don’t Come”, “Letter”, “Haven’t You Ever Wanted to Use the Word Indigo?”, “Blue at the Table in the Hot Sun”, “Maho Bay, Near the Atrologer’s Table”, “July 23” and “The Black Silk…
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– Jennifer Wong’s poetry sequence “The Last Monologues” is now published in the latest issue of Glass. Read it here. – Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal. –
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Cover artist: Annysa Ng – –In Issue #13 of Cha, due out at the end of February 2011, we have: –15 poems by 12 poets | 5 short stories | Works by 4 artists/photographers | 1 “lost tea” | 1 interview with graphic novelists…
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– Jee Leong Koh’s new poetry collection Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (Bench Press) is now available for purchase on Amazon. You can read a description of the book and a sample poem “Study #5: After Frida Kahlo” here.…
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Robert Raymer’s Lovers and Strangers Revisited will be translated into French by Éditions GOPE. The French version will be sold in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Asian places such as Hong Kong, Thailand and Cambodia. You can go to Robert’s website and…
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POETS FOR PLAYS “Some of the city’s most well-known poets bring the love at an Infinitheatre fundraiser this Sunday, Feb. 13 from 5–7 p.m. at Bain St-Michel (5300 St-Dominique). Mike Spry, Gillian Sze, Mary di Michele, and others will read the love…
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– Lyn Lifshin’s poem “” is now published in the February 2011 issue of The Orange Room Review. Read it here. – Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha –
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Winnie Chau – Winnie Chau’s poem “The Finger-biting Girl”, previously published in The Delinquent, is now featured on Eyewear. Read it here. – Winnie Chau’s poem “her story” was published in Issue #4 of Cha. –
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Kudos 86 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 Runs mainly from the end of January right up to mid March, and beyond in some cases – £3.00 THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS and loads of dough with The Biscuit Prize Ver-ily there’s some tasty stuff…
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– Steven Digman’s The Moving of Art, photographs in the fine-art of transportation, is now available here. Steven Digman’s photography was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– Ivy Alvarez’s “Tilt”, written in response to Makaelathe’s (aged 7) “The Viollisa Bird” is now featured on BIG Kids Magazine. Ivy’s piece begins with the following: Every airport has a particular smell. Hong Kong International Airport’s a dried fish/market…
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– Kristine Ong Muslim’s poem “Almost Midnight” is now published in Schrodinger’s Mouse. – Kristine Ong Muslim’s poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha. –
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Every now and then it is very nice to go to a quiet museum that is not swamped with visitors, especially one that does not oppress you with one thousand pieces of art or more to see. Today, as part…
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“Oysters” by Edouard Manet, 1862 Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? What? Apart from this? Sarah Waters in Tipping the Velvet (1998) tells us more: I opened no more shells for Kitty, for she managed them herself. ‘Look…
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Gllian Sze’s favourite form of procrastination is cleaning (!) – can you believe it? From a coffee spoon to a bathtub! Read more about Gillian in this Goodreads interview with ECW Press. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. –
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–From their website: In an exciting cultural event celebrating the 36th anniversary of Voices Israel, co-editor Michael Dickel, visiting from Jerusalem, will host poets Matthew Anish, Stanley H. Barkan, Julia Birdsall, Asya Graf, Adeena Karasick, W. F. Lantry, Pearse Murray,…
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–From their website: 2011 is starting off with a bang! We’re ushering in the new year with a Mouth to Mouth Open Mic featuring activist and spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and poet Ocean Vuong. So, come, bring a…
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LANTERN REVIEW & BOXCAR POETRY REVIEW Joint Reading Lantern Review is hosting a joint reading with Boxcar Poetry Review on Friday night (the 4th) at 7:30 pm, at Go Mama Go! (1809 14th St. NW). Entrance is pay-as-you-wish. About 16 writers…
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– Todd Swift’s poems “Slieve Donard II” and “Sonnet” are now published in the February 2011 issue of Poetry. – Todd Swift’s poems were published in issue #2 , issue #3 and issue #11 of Cha. –
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–In this LRB article, Frank Kermode answers: It was in 1948 that he [Empson] first outlined the theory in a letter to his wife: Bloom would like to make love to Molly but hasn’t done so for ten years, since…
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– Robert E. Wood’s poem “The Red Room” (p. 10) is now published in the Winter 2011 issue of The Meadowland Review. You can view the issue online here or download the pdf here. – Read Robert E. Wood’s Cha…
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